There is an endless variety of spoon baits now made for the angler to select from; among them the most admired are the “fluted spoons” and the “mottled pearl,” including the new Florida pearl spinner, with a body of white pearl, combined with a mottled revolving spoon. But the old-fashioned revolving silvered plate in its various forms is by no means superseded by these modern mysteries.
The introduction of black-bass throughout the country has created a large demand for artificial baits. Live minnows are often difficult to obtain, and the market is now well supplied with artificial minnows, frogs, dobsons, crickets, beetles, and grasshoppers. Of these baits, the “fairy” is the most successful. It is made of fish-skin, and has the scales of the real minnow preserved. It is as soft and flexible as the live bait, and will kill black-bass and pickerel when every other artificial bait fails.
Of minnow gangs there is also a great variety, the latest and one of the best being the “St. Lawrence” gang. This has a thin baiting needle, which allows the most delicate minnow to live for hours, and has not the usual great number of treble hooks to make it troublesome and unsightly for delicate fishing.
INDEX.
[A], [B], [C], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [W].
A.
Allowance of provisions, [312]
Attihawmeg, [147]
B.
Bass, black, [217]
Otsego, [151]
rock, [222]
Baits for trout, [33]
Black Fly, [297]
Blue-fish, [153]
Boiestown, [135]
C.
Camp life, [297]
stores, [302]
Centrarchus æneus, [222]
fasciatus, [217]
Cisco, [149]
Classification of fish, [7]
Cooking, 303, [307]
Coregonus albus, [147]
Otsego, [151]
Common Carp, [163]
Crab bait, [205]
Curing fish, [304]
Cyprinus carpio, [163]
E.
Ephemera, [292]
Esox estor, [164]
fasciatus, [187]
Elucioides, [181]
reticulatus, [182]
tredecem radiatus, [184]
F.
Flies and knots, [263]
for bass, [283]
for salmon, [263]
for trout, [16]
Flies, Rods, etc., [Appendix].
G.
Ghost of Deadman’s Landing, [126]
story of Abraham, [129]
Glass-eye, [224]
Green-fish, [153]
Grystes nigricans, [217]
H.
Horse mackerel, [153]
I.
Insects, [285]
K.
Knots, [263]
L.
Labrax lineatus, [202]
Landing fish, [28]
La Val, [61]
lake, [77]
Lucioperca americana, [224]
M.
Mascallonge, [164]
Mascanonga, [164]
Marshpee, [22]
Miramichi, [120]
Moose story, [131]
N.
Neuroptera, [291]
New Brunswick, trip to, [116]
Nipisiquit, [140]
O.
Ohio salmon, [225]
Otsego bass, [151]
P.
Perca labrax, [202]
flavescens, [228]
Perch, yellow, [228]
Pickerel, [198]
common, [182]
great northern, [181]
Long Island, [187]
Pickering, [224]
Pike, federation, [184]
of the lakes, [224]
perch, [224]
Propagation of fish, [230]
Phryganea, [292]
R.
Roe of shad or salmon, [204]
Rock-fish, [202]
S.
Salmon, [88]
Salmon fishing, 92, [102]
habits of, [98]
rivers, [167]
rivers, how to reach them, [111]
time for catching, [94]
place for catching, [94]
rod for, [91]
Ohio, [225]
Salmo salar, [88]
trutta marina, [41]
Sciena lineata, [202]
Scollops, [207]
Sea trout, [41]
Shrimp bait, [205]
Skipjack, [153]
Smoking fish, [305]
Snap-hook, [176]
Snapping mackerel, [157]
Spearing, [209]
Spoons, [174]
T.
Temnodon saltator [157]
Tents, 293, [311]
Thousand Isles, [189]
Trimmers for pickerel, [177]
Trout, American speckled, or brook, [12]
flies for, [16]
fly-fishing for, [18]
baits for, [23]
sea, white or silver, [41]
white, or Scoodic, [145]
W.
White-fish, [147]
trout, [145]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] These periods do not refer to the game laws.
[2] If he is alive at this writing.
[3] Since that was written, many of these waters have been depleted, and Long Island has been so thoroughly preserved that there is hardly a free pond or stream from one end to the other of it.